This is the October 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
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Now Available: Annual Report
The 2019-2020 Fedora Annual Report is now available. Thanks to all who contributed content for the report. Highlights include progress toward Fedora 6.0 and migrations from previous versions, along with spotlights of important collections in Fedora repositories around the world.
IMLS Grant Update: Fedora Migration Paths and Tools
Work on the IMLS-funded Fedora Migration Paths and Tools project began this month with two pilot kick-off meetings: University of Virginia and Whitman College. The grant team met with each pilot institution to establish roles, responsibilities, goals, and timelines. The project plans are still be being finalized, but you can follow the public GitHub project boards to keep track of progress on the pilots. In October the focus will be on preparing the University of Virginia's Fedora 3 data for migration, as well as progress toward a verification utility. Stay tuned for further updates!
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- Progress toward Fedora 4 & 5 → Fedora 6 migration (upgrade-utils)
- Integration of fcrepo-storage-ocfl into core
- Fedora API Alignment
- Prefer header (Inbound inbound references)
- Progress toward direct and Indirect Container Supportindirect container support
Through December of 2020 we will be holding one-week-long Fedora 6 mini-sprints during the first week of each month.
This will allow for consistent progress towards the Fedora 6 release, as well as a clear schedule for you to plan towards participating on sprints. If you miss one month, you can join the next!
The next current sprint will take takes place October 5-9 . with the following goals:
- Add version upgrade from F4→F5 to complete F4→F6 migration path
- Amazon S3 Support
- Complete implementation of direct containers
- Improve instrumentation for identifying and troubleshooting bottlenecks
Please add your name to any of the upcoming sprint dates on the wiki.
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